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7 pairs, curved, ascending ; length 3-25 to 5 in., breadth 1-35 to 

 2-5 in. ; petioles -1 to -15 in. Wlale fioivers -45 in. long, 2 to 6 

 together, in axillary or extra-axillary bracteate sessile tomentose 

 fascicles. Calyx sub-sessile, campanulate, pubescent outside, glabrous 

 inside ; the Hmb deeply divided into 5 broadly ovate, bluntly acuminate 

 spreading lobes. Corolla salver- shaped ; tube slightly inflated and 

 glabrous in the lower half outside, cylindric and pubescent in the 

 upper half, inside glabrous ; limb with 4 broadly oblong obtuse 

 glabrescent spreading lobes. Stamens 12, of different lengths, 

 attached in 3 rows in the tube ; anthers lanceolate-cordate, apicu- 

 late ; filaments slender and of varying length ; rudimentary ovary 

 none. Female flowers conspicuously bi-bracteate, in cymes hke 

 the ^ but shortly pedunculate. Calyx as in the $• but less deeply 

 lobed. Fruit ellipsoid, not much narrowed at the ends, slightly 

 tetragonous, glabrous, -75 in. long and about -35 in. in diam., crowned 

 by the short remains of the style ; the calyx clasping its base, about 

 half as long, with 4 deep triangular lobes. Seeds 4, ridged. Clarke in 

 Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 562 ; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. XLVI., 

 ii. 236, For. Fl. II. 135. G natter ia ? flavicans, Wall. Cat. 7295. 

 Ebe7iacea, sp. 2, Griff. Notul. IV. 291. 



Malacca : Griffith (K.D.) 454, 3623 ; Maingay (K.D.) 972 {as to 

 male plant only); Heifer (K.D.) 3639? Penang : Cnrtis 1602. 

 Selangor : Ridley 10556. Peeak : 2058 ; Ki^ig's Collector 2480, 

 3354, 3380, 3774, 6149, 6633, 10007. 



8. DiosPYEOs APicuLATA, Hiern in Trans. Camb. Philos. Soc. XII. 

 186 (1873). A shrub or small tree ; young branches half as thick as 

 a goose-quill, fulvous-hirsute. Leaves alternate, membranous ; oblong 

 or elliptic-oblong, sometimes rather oblanceolate, finely caudate- 

 acuminate, slightly narrowed to the rounded or somewhat cuneate 

 base ; both surfaces dark olivaceous-brown when dry, transversely 

 reticulate; upper surface sparsely adpressed-pubescent, the midrib 

 and main-nerves pubescent and slightly depressed ; lower surface 

 darker, and with many long rather coarse hairs, especially on the 

 prominent midrib and 8 to 10 pairs of slightly curved ascending 

 main-nerves ; length 5-5 to 7 in., breadth 1-5 to 2-5 in. ; petiole 

 •1 in., tomentose. Male floivers about 3 together, axillary, sub-sessile, 

 •35 in. long. Calyx 4- to 5-partite, about -25 in. long, pubescent, lobes 

 narrowly lanceolate. Corolla tubular, 4-lobed, -4 in. long, the lobes 

 spreading, oval, obtuse. Stamens 6 to 12, unequal, glabrous ; anthers 

 linear-oblong, acuminate ; filaments often geniculate, dilated and some- 

 what united at the base, rudimentary ovary small, hairy. Female 

 flowers 1 to 3 together on short axillary, minutely hispid cymes. 



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